Title :
Coherent pulse stacking amplification using cascaded and multiplexed Gires-Tournois interferometers
Author :
Tong Zhou ; Ruppe, John ; Cheng Zhu ; I-Ning Hu ; Nees, John ; Wilcox, Russell ; Leemans, Wim ; Galvanauskas, Almantas
Author_Institution :
Center for Ultrafast Opt. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
We show stacking of multiple equal-amplitude pulses into a single pulse using properly configured sequences of Gires-Tournois interferometers, which in conjunction of chirped pulse amplification in fibers can enable large increase in extractable pulse energies.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; light coherence; light interferometers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; cascaded Gires-Tournois interferometers; chirped pulse amplification; coherent pulse stacking amplification; multiplexed Gires-Tournois interferometers; Cavity resonators; Interferometers; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Stacking; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
